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Shawn Hornbeck was stopped by police in neighboring Glendale for being out too late a few months ago. Hornbeck is the 15 year old boy who emerged last weekend after being missing for four years, allegedly kidnapped by Michael Devlin of Kirkwood, Missouri, who is now in custody...
...home from friends when he was stopped by a police officer at 11:23 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. He was wearing dark clothes and had no lights. The officer asked him where he was going, he was going home to his "father" and used the named Shawn Devlin. "Shawn did not respond to initial questions, so the officer asked him to get off his bike." He was about a mile to mile-and-a-half from Devlin?s home, and the police officer - it appears from the incident report, the chief said - sent...
...strange. Yeah, there are a lot more questions out there for me than answers. Four and a half years seems an awful long time. By then, of course, he was four years into it." Other reports have speculated that the boy was intimidated into being docile and obedient to Devlin, who is said to have a collection of guns at home. Black said the officer who made the stop was called and asked about it once they found the incident report, and said he at first didnt remember the name or the stop, but recalled it after reading about...
...Until his arrest last Friday on kidnapping charges, Michael Devlin, 41, led a life that seemed limited to a three- or four-mile radius from the place he grew up, Webster Groves, an upscale suburb of St. Louis. "He was just a big, friendly marshmallow," said one neighbor who knew Devlin in his youth. When he finally moved out of his parents' home, where he lived in an apartment above the garage, he set up residence in an apartment complex in Kirkwood, about three miles away. For 25 years, he worked at Imo's, a pizza parlor even closer...
...saucy retort. But many of their loved ones feel less jovial about the women's decision to take the veil. "For those who are called, there is a real falling in love. You are filled with a joy and desire to be with God," says Sister Mary Gabriel Devlin, 32, vocation director at Sisters of Life. "Their families are not experiencing this, so it can be hard for them to understand." The sense of alienation can be even greater when women choose an order that isolates them from their families and others so that they can devote themselves to strict...